Principles of Modern Radar - Volume 2 1891121537

xxivEditors and ContributorsMr. Aram A. PartizianChapter 12 – Electronic ProtectionAram Partizian is a Senior Research Scientist at GTRI where he contributes to the design, development,and field-testing of advanced radar electronic warfare technologies. He has over 30 yearsof experience in radar and electronic warfare field, including software and system engineeringroles at Raytheon Company prior to joining Georgia Tech. He earned a B.A. in Physics fromOberlin College in 1977.Dr. Lee C. PotterChapter 5 – Radar Applications of Sparse Reconstruction and Compressed SensingLee C. Potter received the B.E. degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, and the M.S. andPh.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in electrical engineering.Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The OhioState University, Columbus. Professor Potter is also an investigator with the OSU Davis Heartand Lung Research Institute. His research interests include statistical signal processing, inverseproblems, detection, and estimation, with applications in radar and medical imaging. Prof. Potteris a two-time recipient of the OSU MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching.Dr. Mark A. RichardsChapter 8 – Interferometric SAR and Coherent ExploitationMark Richards is a faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, teaching and conducting research in the areas of digital signal processing,radar signal processing, and high performance embedded computing. He was previously Chiefof the Radar Systems Division in the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory ofthe Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). He is lead editor of Principles of Modern Radar:Basic Principles (SciTech Publishing, 2010) and the author of Fundamentals of Radar SignalProcessing (McGraw-Hill, 2005), as well as co-editor or contributor to four other books. Hereceived his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1982 and is a Fellow of the IEEE.Dr. Teresa SeleeChapter 14 – Automatic Target RecognitionTeresa Selee is a Research Scientist in the Adaptive Sensor Technology branch of GTRI’s Systemsand Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL). Her areas of research include target trackingand discrimination, as well as adaptive radar signal processing algorithms. She gives lecturesin the SMTI short course with the Georgia Tech Defense Technology Professional EducationProgram, and earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University.Dr. Gregory A. ShowmanChapter 7 – Stripmap SARGreg Showman is a Senior Research Engineer and Head of the Adaptive Sensor TechnologyBranch in GTRI. He has over 25 years of experience in advanced RF sensor research and development,with an emphasis on the design and implementation of innovative signal processingtechniques for radar imaging, multi-dimensional adaptive filtering, and electronic protection. Hefrequently teaches SAR in GTRI-sponsored short courses, including the “Principles of ModernRadar,” and is co-director of “Fundamentals of SAR Signal Processing” and responsible for thestripmap lecture series.